It is now a decade since these volumes appeared in French and their translation into English, impeccably done, and subsidised by the French Ministry of Culture (would that such an institution existed in Britain) makes available to students and scholars a collection of thirty essays compiled by what looks like a roll call of the most distinguished French anthropologists and historians of th

On behalf of the four editors of A History of the Family, I wish to acknowledge the receipt of the review by Professor Olwen Hufton. We will not respond to this as we feel that none of the statements - be they positive or negative - are in dispute.

We are honoured by the review and wish to thank Professor Hufton most sincerely.

There is considerable agreement among historians that any explanation of Britain's post-war relative economic decline must take into account the foreign economic policy choices made by British governments after 1945.

Paul Hair, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Liverpool, is best known as one of the pioneers of the academic study of the history of sub-Saharan (or in Hair’s own preferred terminology, Black) Africa from the 1950s onwards.

Since I approve of the Reviews in History project, I reply to Robin Law’s fair and generous review of a small collection of my articles, Africa Encountered, 1997, although what follows is in no sense a rejoinder. Instead I answer a couple of queries.

Growing out of recent work on gender, scholars are now turning their attention to the history of masculinity. A key aspect of this subject is how masculinity is constructed, since, in the words of Michael Roper and John Tosh, 'masculinity is never fully possessed, but must perpetually be achieved, asserted and renegotiated'.